sentimentality

英 [ˌsentɪmenˈtæləti]

美 [ˌsentɪmenˈtæləti]

n.  感伤情调; 多愁善感

医学

BNC.18455 / COCA.17949

牛津词典

noun

• 感伤情调；多愁善感
  the quality of being too sentimental

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 感伤的;多情的;多愁善感的
  Someone or something that issentimentalfeels or shows pity or love, sometimes to an extent that is considered exaggerated and foolish.
  1. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past...
     我努力不让自己表现得感怀过去。
  2. It's a very sentimental play.
     这是一部十分煽情的戏。
• ADJ 情感(上)的;(尤指)(出于)怀旧的
  Sentimentalmeans relating to or involving feelings such as pity or love, especially for things in the past.
  1. Our paintings and photographs are of sentimental value only...
     我们的画作和照片仅有纪念价值。
  2. Perhaps he has returned for sentimental reasons.
     也许他是出于情感上的原因才回来的。

英英释义

noun

• falsely emotional in a maudlin way
  Synonym:mawkishnessdrippinessmushinesssoupinesssloppiness
• extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

双语例句

• So put your sentimentality to the test and toss the damn thing.
  把你的情感寄望于这该诅咒的硬币上吧。
• It looks smooth with its characteristic antiquity often arousing one's sentimentality.
  平滑，特有的古老常常唤起人们的情怀。
• Her voice dripped sentimentality.
  她的声音中流露出伤感。
• I was sure I wasn't going to be taken in by this kind of sentimentality.
  我相信我决不会为这种假作多情所欺骗。
• I don't know whether I more loathe the brutality of you Germans or despise your sentimentality.
  我真不知道是更厌恶你们德国人的野蛮兽性还是瞧不起你们的自作多情。
• I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality.
  我相信人类，但我的信念绝非是滥施情感。
• Sentimentality seems a characteristic of all the writers of that period.
  伤感似乎是那个时期所有作家的特征。
• She criticized what she described as the film's cloying sentimentality.
  她批评这部影片如她所说的令人倒胃口的伤感情调。
• A certain sentimentality is the common coin of political debate.
  某种程度的情感激动是政治辩论的共同特点。
• One is sentimentality; the archetypical American child is Huckleberry Finn, who had little taste for formal education.
  令人感到无奈的是，典型的美国孩子都跟哈克贝里·费恩一样，对正规教育兴味索然。